The first International Conference on Social Computing: Fundamentals, Development Technologies, Social and Humanities Effects (IISC-12) will be the forum bringing together researchers from all countries, disciplines and applications to exchange new ideas, results and techniques in different facets of social computing and its applications.
Date: June 14 – 16, 2012
Organisers: Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities
http://mggu-sh.ru/
FP-7 Project “Building a global multidisciplinary digital governance and policy modelling research and practice community”
http://www.policy-community.eu/
Venue: Exact Sciences and Innovation Technology Faculty,
Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities,
The second campus, 9 Ryazanskiy Av., Moscow, Russia
Organizing Committee
Vladimir Nechaev (Chairman),
Maria Wimmer (Co-Chairman),
Sergey Traytak (Co-Chairman),
Kirill Makarov,
Nadehzda Starikova (Secretary).
Scientific Committee
E. Brodovskaya (Russia),
S. Chernyshenko (Germany),
A. Chmielewski (Poland),
J. Genci (Slovakia),
T. Evgenyeva (Russia),
V. Lyubchak (Ukraine),
M. Pavlyutenkova (Russia),
T. Thelen (Germany),
K. Troitzsch (Germany),
M. Vayndorf-Sysoeva (Russia).
Invited Speakers
M. Anohin (Russia),
A.-L. Barabasi (USA),
M. Cha (S. Korea),
T. Erickson (USA),
B. Huberman (USA),
M. Grachov (Russia),
K. Gummadi (India),
I. King (Hong Kong),
G. Malinetsiy (Russia),
A. Tuzhilin (USA).
Aim
Generaly speaking the social computing may be defined as some computational support in the field of social research and human social dynamics, as well as the development and usage of information and communication technologies which have important social or political context. Social computing has recently became a hot topic in a number of fields related to information and communication technologies, and attracted considerable interest not only researchers in computing, social and political sciences, but also of specialists dealing with software developers of social networks, providers of online games, web entrepreneurs, practical politicians, and psychologists. However, despite its importance, this line of research has not received proper development and recognition in Russia. So conference organizers hope very much that it will contribute to the emergence of sustained interest to different problems of social computing among Russian researchers engaged in various relevant fields.
First International Conference Social Computing: Fundamentals, Development Technologies, Social and Humanities Effects (IISC-12) is a forum bringing together researchers and practitioners from all countries, disciplines, and applications to exchange ideas, results and methods in various areas of social computing. Moreover, IISC-12 will also pay essential attention to encourage students and young scientists particularly from Russia to be widely involved in research of various scientific and practical issues within the scope of this conference.
Scope
The topics to be covered in IISC-12 are as follows:
• Fundamentals of social computing
• Social computing and new technological platform for social interaction
• Social groups and societies in the network: research methodology
• Simulation of social behavior
• Change of government and politics under the influence of social computing
• Social computing as the basis of the Internet Economy
• Psychological effects of social computing
• Social computing and education
Tentative schedule
There will be no poster session as it will be open during the whole conference. 2 days would be needed for the conference. To cover all the above topics we expect from 60 to 100 participants.
A full-day end-conference excursion (June 16 Saturday) will be arranged to visit Sergiyev Posad which grew up in the 15th century around one of the greatest of Russian monasteries, the Troitse-Sergiyeva (Trinity) Lavra established by St. Sergius of Radonezh.
Language
The conference language is English and Russian
Abstract submission deadline
07 May 2012.
Contact information:
Please contact the following e-mail if you have any question:
Sergey Traytak IISC-12@mail.ru
Tel/Fax: (495) 915-0639